In his groundbreaking book “Linked” Prof. Barabasi shows that most networks (human, social, disease, code) follow the same rules and have a different structure than we assumed. It explains the dominance of Microsoft, the power of Google and the special role of super-nodes in hyperconnectivity. Many lessons can be drawn from these insights.(More in future posts).
It seems that the Obama team fully understands the rules and the potential. They have used the internet extensively in their campaign. In hindsight the brilliant “Wassup”-pastiche shown in a previous post must have been made by them.
A “behind-the-scenes/fly-on-the-wall” set of photos of Obama and family during the election night has been released on Flickr.
Directly after the election this Change.Gov website has been opened which explains their plans and asks for responses and input.
In an emaillist (of which I am a member) a request was posed through the Obama-team on input for a specific subject, leading to a burst of activity by listmembers in trying to formulate input on how to execute a policy.
Maybe, maybe we are seeing a President 2.0 in action.
